Having played I think 90% of these, I think my favourite was Gryzor, followed by Salamander and Hyper Sports.... sorry, I always preferred Way of the Exploding Fist to Yie Ar :)
I absolutely love this channel ... hats off to Kim for taking me back to the days of my youth; that Speccy 128k my folks grafted so hard for was a big part of my childhood
Mikie!!!!! one of my favourite speccy games of all time! and also TMHT, loved the colorfull graphics! Pingpong was also an stable in my speccy collection. Konami will be always in the memory of many many speccy players.
Had the same one, loved Hypersports, Green Beret and Mikie. Mikie would only load on my brothers +2 but not my +2a, the opposite happened with Yie Ar Kung Fu.
If I ever go to Europe to play any of the ZX Spectrum games, I'll gravitate towards Eric & the floaties. As I am a Bomberman veteran since 64, and I'm getting the hang of the 2d Bomberman games atm
Been looking forward to this one!!! I worshipped 80s Konami, those silver label NES carts held such prestige for me. Your big giant list/multi-review vids are among my favorite things on RU-vid, there's no better combo than Kim + Speccy + Konami!
When I first got my 128k back in the day the 5 Konami coin op hits compilation was one of the titles bundled in . Great hit pack. Green Beret was the first game I played on the Speccy and it was a stone cold classic. Great days 👍🏻
I’m so pumped your making these compilation videos again. NO ONE does a better job that you do my friend. Honestly....I’ve spent hundreds of hours watching your videos and your research and knowledge is just amazing. You are a diamond in the rough my friend. 💪💪💪💪💪
Another Kim Justice classic! Thanks for continuing to provide us with such wonderfully created, Genre leading Retro gaming documentaries like this. Your care and attention to detail never fails to impress. All chapter/time stamped as well! Great piece of work.
oh dear, lol, this was meant to be for the Konami Video, but it rolled to this one behind the comment screen. Oh well, comment is the same also, thanks Kim!
@@Bianchiboy Yes! Treasure Island was another one. I didn't remember Disco Dan but just looked it up, I do remember the cover art, but not the gameplay for some reason.
I was so disappointed with nemesis as I loved it in the arcades. £7.95 down the drain. I also bought jailbreak knowing nothing about the arcade. Fortunately most of the Konami ones I bought were very good and ping pong was an unexpected treat.
WEC Le Mans was easily my fave Konami conversion. The Speccy did arcade racers really well and WEC was one of the best on there, it still holds up now.
At different buffets, I'll sneak corndogs in with me. I carry them in my jacket pockets. I place them with the other buffet food. Then it's a great joy for me watching other patrons eat my conrdogs thinking they were from the buffet.
I actually enjoyed the Turtles coin op on the Spectrum. The main issue with it was that the lack of the arcade's graphics and sound exposed how shallow the gameplay was. It was still pretty playable though, plenty of action too for a Speccy beat 'em up conversion.
09:27 I remember I had the Atari 2600 and my cousin a Spectrum, and when hardly ever put Yie Ar KF I was like in the paradise but at the same time at the hell because it wasn't mine. 😭😭 That intro screen was like WWOOOOWWW!!
Thanks for another video. I appreciate AY music in the background from games. I like Hypersports, Green Beret and also Salamander was (in my opinion) great. Please do a MASTERTRONIC portfolio.
Kim, the intro music to this and many other of your videos is driving my memory crazy, where in retro UK TV is it from? Many thanks for your fantastic and meticulously researched videos.
Great video Kim! I remember my disappointment with Salamander after first playing the arcade version in a local computer shop... but I was even more disappointed with Nemesis after playing the C64 version at a friend's house and having high hopes! Thankfully they were only £2.99 each when I bought them.
Mmmm, I watch all your videos at least twice Kim. Once to fully absorb and enjoy the video and then a second time when I go to sleep. The cadence of your voice is like honey to the ears and whisks me off to sleep in no time.
Love your voice kim. I could listen to you talk about anything lol. the recent oasis vid was cool please do more music docs. How about one on the prodigy?
One thing I've been curious about with the ZX Spectrum: What did folks typically use as a monitor? I can't imagine too many UK kids having a 2nd TV in their room in the 80s. Was there an official ZX Spectrum monitor, did folks tend to also own a C64 and use that monitor, did they just hook it up to the family TV?
@@Kim_Justice ahh ok. I'd heard about (probably form your channel) the TV registration fee in the UK, so I figured that'd probably keep many folks from having multiple TVs, especially with how expensive they already we're back then. Anyways thank you for yet another fascinating look at the UK micro scene!
Wonder where Sinclair would be today if they used their own proprietary storage medium rather than normal tapes in order to collect a small fee from each one sold, 5p maybe. Theyd need to produce the medium for close to the price of tapes though which would be hard but there was room for an extra £1 on prices for sure. Would have also hurt bedroom piracy. Its a shame Sinclair thought like inventors rather than businessmen in some ways as we lost out on an Amstrad equivalent Spectrum 2 in 87 or 88, with Sinclair worried about back compatibility as inventors would be, rather than creating something so desirable that people will upgrade.
The biggest problem with the Road Race game is the title which suggests some relation to the other game known from Atari and C=64 - "The Great American Cross-Country Road Race" which was widely known by the shortened name "Road Race".
Again, very strange stuff from an American perspective. I have always loved this channel and this is one of the main reasons. I get that the popularity of the microcomputer carried England through the 83 disaster, which is awesome, but I'm not sure that would have worked here. Especially with this computer, I just can't see my friends and I being interested in the bizarre colors. My son found me watching one of your videos once and he thought I was watching a glitch video. He's a generation removed from this era of gaming, admittedly, but it's not a good sign when someone's immediate impression of a system's graphics is that the system is broken.
It's always depressing to see how side scrollers were a lot better on the ZX Spectrum than on the Amstrad (as in properly side scrolling to start with). Green Beret on the Amstrad was a shame next to this awesome port.
that's usually the case, unless the C64 hi-res mode (320*200) is used for the sprites, as in many Ocean C64 games (and they usually overlapped two hardware sprites for added colour).
Was Stop the Express based on me getting a train in Birminghaml as a teenager? Running away from yobs with Birmingham City Jerseys with knives whilst trapped on a train was my daily commute.
17:33 bit of politics. I missed the word before "protectors". "Hadn't had to change into Robot costumes and become ??????? protectors" ? I probably totally agree, but couldn't work out what you said. Great work as always Kim
@@Kim_Justice Thanks, I thought you were saying UK police officers turned into robots, and was about to agree tf out of you, but you are too smart to get involved in such politics.
The Yie-ar KungFu II port is a curious case. It was the follow up to the MSX version of Yie Ar KungFu (which was totally different than the arcade version). Why not 'simply' port the MSX code over?
I don't know how to pronounce the names of some of these games.😂 He calls YIE AR KUNG-FU with the word YIE pronounced like TIE... I always pronounced it YEE like SEE with the double E sound. The other day I watched a video where they pronounced the WEC in WEC LE MANS as a word like PECK rather than sounding out the three letters. Have I been getting it wrong all these years 😂
